Survey finds Americans tuning out world news

The Boston Globe ^ | 6/10/02 | Mark Jurkowitz

[GeneD]

For the second time in three weeks, a major media survey has found that Americans' news habits have not been fundamentally changed by the traumatic events of Sept. 11.

On the heels of a Project for Excellence in Journalism study that revealed that network news was returning to a pre-Sept. 11 diet of softer content, a new Pew Research Center survey reports that the terror attacks and the war in Afghanistan have not significantly whetted the public's appetite for news.

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[snag_matic]

As long as Football is on the boob tube and I get my (Social Security, Welfare, Food Stamp) check from the guvm't. Thats all I care to know.

[maxwell]

Huh? What? I wasn't listening...

[pt17]

A person named Mark Jurkowitz writes for the Boston Globe and cites a Pew survey? Ok, I guess that all fits.

[jos65]

After reading this piece, one has to ask: where in the bloody hell was the survey taken?

We in the heartland of America do keep abreast ofthe news via newspapers and perhaps occasionally the bias news.

Today there are so many ways of keeping abreast that this survey is meaning less.

[pyx]

Project for Excellence in Journalism study

*sNoRt* *CaCkLe* *cOuGh*

bwahahahahahHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHA !!!

[B4Ranch]

One inexorable trend, the Pew survey indicated, is the continued lack of interest in news among young Americans. Since 1994, the percentage of people younger than 25 who have said they got no news the previous day from newspapers, television, or the radio has risen from 14 percent to 37 percent. Only 26 percent of those younger than 30 had read a newspaper the day before they were surveyed, and only 19 percent said they regularly watched the nightly network news.

This is because of the effectiveness in not teaching American history to the public school students. They don't feel that they are a part of America. EXACTLY WHAT A ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT NEEDS !!!!